2 16S rRNA Gene

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2.1 General background about 16S rRNA Gene

• Biological function
  
• Variable and conserved regions
  
• Multicopy
  
• Horizontal gene transfer
  
• Gene diversity
  • secondary structure
    
  • Use of different variable regions

2.2 16S rRNA phylogenetics

• Gene evolution
  
• Phylogeny

2.3 16S rRNA Databases

• RDP
  
• Greengenes
  
• NCBI
  
• SILVA